I just heard from a reliable source that Disney is getting rid of Mickey, Donald, and company and replacing all the characters with characters from horror movies. Instead of Mickey, the main character now will be Jason from Friday the 13th!

That's no more crazy than building a theme park in the middle of a Florida swamp.

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TRU DAT!!!
As a child of the 60's, growing up in Florida, we heard this unbelievable yarn about that "Florida Disneyland"-(that's what we called it).
And of course, about a month after they actually broke ground, Dad got stationed to Galveston! It would be 3 decades before I got to actually see Walt's vision.

TRU DAT!!!
As a child of the 60's, growing up in Florida, we heard this unbelievable yarn about that "Florida Disneyland"-(that's what we called it).
And of course, about a month after they actually broke ground, Dad got stationed to Galveston! It would be 3 decades before I got to actually see Walt's vision.

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If it makes you feel better...he never came close to seeing it...
And his incredibly tired brother barely made it past the ribbon cutting ceremony.

I often wonder how Disney would have turned out if Walt had lived to say...85 (roughly 1986)...
It would have been interesting.

My DD3 gave me the best rumor ever the car tonight. Apparently Epcot is moving to the other side of Disney World. She gave no details. Sounds exciting!

Anyone else hear this?

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Actually, Disney has shelved their idea of a Dark Kingdom (a villain's take on the Magic Kingdom) but have green lit a Dark EPCOT to be built elsewhere at WDW. That's probably the real story. They'll also establish monorail pylons to connect it to the Dark Kingdom if they ever build it.